NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2006
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=2

THE AUSTRALIAN

Page 1: Labor would push through tough welfare reforms if it won the federal election
to encourage disability pensioners to find work. Retiring Australian spin supremo Shane
Warne has become the first player to take 700 Test wickets. Tiffany Fahey, the daughter
of former NSW premier John Fahey, has been killed in a Sydney car accident. A local lawyer
has received death threats for representing a woman in a controversial appeal against
Malaysian authorities' refusal to accept her conversion from Islam to Christianity. NSW
Labor is on track to win the March election despite its recent woes, according to a new
poll.

Page 2: Recycled sewage would be best used in agriculture and industry but it could
also be used for drinking if treatment was to a high enough standard, says the parliamentary
secretary for the environment.

Page 3: Wild Oats XI is on track to defend its title in the Sydney to Hobart yacht
race, streaking out of Sydney Harbour in record time.

World: Islamic forces have retreated in Somalia following attacks by government and
Ethiopian troops (Mogadishu).

Finance: An estimated 2.3 million people visited a Myer store on Boxing Day.

Sport: Retiring Australian spinner Shane Warne bowled England's Andrew Strauss at the
MCG to become the first man to take his 700th Test wicket.

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